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'I Hate Tennis'
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Andre Agassi discusses life as a pro tennis player and his early development
Agassi is candid thoughout, assessing other players and his own demons
Excerpted from Open: An Autobiography, by Andre Agassi. © 2009 ALA Publishing LLC. Published by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of The Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Random House Inc.
I open my eyes and don't know where I am or who I am. Not all that unusual -- I've spent half my life not knowing. Still, this feels different. This confusion is more frightening. More total.
I look up. I'm lying on the floor beside the bed. I remember now. I moved from the bed to the floor in the middle of the night. I do that most nights. Better for my back. Too many hours on a soft mattress causes agony.
I count to three, then start the long, difficult process of standing. With a groan, I roll onto my side, then curl into the fetal position, then flip over onto my stomach. Now I wait, and wait, for the blood to start pumping.
I'm a young man, relatively speaking. Thirty-six. But I wake as if 96. After two decades of sprinting, stopping on a dime, jumping high and landing hard, my body no longer feels like my body. Consequently my mind doesn't feel like my mind. I run quickly through the basic facts. My name is Andre Agassi. My wife's name is Stefanie Graf. We have two children, a son and a daughter, five and three. We live in Las Vegas but currently reside in a suite at the Four Seasons Hotel in New York City, because I'm playing in the 2006 U.S. Open. My last U.S. Open. In fact my last tournament ever. I play tennis for a living, even though I hate tennis, hate it with a dark and secret passion, and always have.
As this last piece of identity falls into place, I slide to my knees and wait. In a whisper I say: Please let this be over.
Then: I'm not ready for it to be over.
The fatigue of these final days has been severe. Apart from the physical strain, there is the exhausting torrent of emotions set loose by my pending retirement. Now, rising from the center of the fatigue comes the first wave of pain. I grab my back. It grabs me. I feel as if someone snuck in during the night and attached one of those antitheft steering-wheel locks to my spine. How can I play in the U.S. Open with the Club on my spine?
I was born with spondylolisthesis, meaning that a bottom vertebra parted from the other vertebrae, struck out on its own, rebelled. (It's the main reason for my pigeon-toed walk.) With this one vertebra out of sync, there's less room for the nerves inside the column of my spine, and with the slightest movement the nerves feel that much more crowded. Throw in two herniated disks and a bone that won't stop growing in a futile effort to protect the whole damaged area, and those nerves start to feel downright claustrophobic. When they send out distress signals, a pain runs up and down my leg that makes me suck in my breath and speak in tongues. At such moments the only relief is to lie down and wait. Sometimes, however, the moment arrives in the middle of a match. Then the only remedy is to alter my game -- swing differently, run differently, do everything differently. That's when my muscles spasm. Everyone avoids change; muscles can't abide it. Told to change, my muscles join the spinal rebellion, and soon my whole body is at war with itself.
Gil Reyes, my trainer, my friend, my surrogate father, explains it this way: Your body is saying it doesn't want to do this anymore.
My body has been saying that for a long time, I tell Gil. Since January, however, my body has been shouting it. My body doesn't want to retire -- my body has already retired. My body has moved to Florida and bought a condo and white Sansabelts. So I've been negotiating with my body, asking it to come out of retirement for a few hours here, a few hours there. Much of this negotiation revolves around a cortisone shot that temporarily dulls the pain. Before the shot works, however, it causes its own torments.
I got one yesterday, so I could play tonight. It was the third shot this year, the 13th of my career, and by far the most alarming. The doctor, not my regular doctor, told me brusquely to assume the position. I stretched out on his table, face-down, and his nurse yanked down my shorts. The doctor said he needed to get his seven-inch needle as close to the inflamed nerves as possible. But he couldn't enter directly, because my herniated disks and the bone spur were blocking the path. His attempts to circumvent them, to break the Club, sent me through the roof. First he inserted the needle. Then he positioned a big machine over my back to see how close the needle was to the nerves. In and out and around he maneuvered the needle, until my eyes filled with water.
Finally he hit the spot. Bull's-eye, he said.
In went the cortisone. The burning sensation made me bite my lip. Then came the pressure. I felt infused, embalmed. The tiny space in my spine where the nerves are housed began to feel vacuum packed. The pressure built until I thought my back would burst.
Pressure is how you know everything's working, the doctor said.
Words to live by, Doc.
I'm seven years old, talking to myself, because I'm scared, and because I'm the only person who listens to me. Under my breath I whisper: Just quit, Andre, just give up. Put down your racket and walk off this court, right now. Wouldn't that feel like heaven, Andre? To just quit? To never play tennis again?
But I can't. Not only would my father, Mike, chase me around the house with my racket, but something in my gut, some deep unseen muscle, won't let me. I hate tennis, hate it with all my heart, and still I keep playing, keep hitting all morning, and all afternoon, because I have no choice. No matter how much I want to stop, I don't. I keep begging myself to stop, and still I keep playing, and this gap, this contradiction between what I want to do and what I actually do, feels like the core of my life.
At the moment my hatred for tennis is focused on the dragon, a ball machine modified by my fire-belching father and set up on the court he built in our yard in Las Vegas. Midnight black, mounted on big rubber wheels, the dragon is a living, breathing creature straight out of my comic books. It has a brain, a will, a black heart -- and a horrifying voice. Sucking another ball into its belly, the dragon makes a series of sickening sounds. As pressure builds inside its throat, it groans. As the ball rises slowly to its mouth, it shrieks. And when the dragon takes dead aim at me and fires a ball 110 miles an hour, the sound it makes is a bloodthirsty roar. I flinch every time.
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Report launch: Clearing the air
Today Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland launch an in-depth report about the available alternatives to carbon trading in climate change mitigation and climate finance. Marco Cadena from our Cancun delegation attended the launch.
Speaking at the launch, the report's author, Sarah-Jayne Clifton, outlined the aim of the report:
The report aims to provide real solutions for the establishment of financial framework for climate change mitigation and finance, in an attempt to allow the initiation of genuine low-carbon development in both developing and developed countries. The report analyses the different sectors involved and the provided alternatives.
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A worldwide feed-in tariff in the energy sector would bring down the costs of renewable technologies to an affordable level for everyone. In addition to the feed-in tariff, a stronger taxation on carbon and energy would trigger energy savings.
Instead of large-scale industrial agriculture, an expansion of small-scale sustainable farming would lead to emission cuts on a broad level. This would also a tackling of the increasing global demand for large-scale agriculture with particular attention given to the meat and dairy industries
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Actions taken in tackling emissions from deforestation and forest degradation need to be monitored and measured to address the main collective issues and to achieve a just solution across the board. This also calls for the protection of the rights of the local communities and the expansion of community forest management.
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A Taxation placed on all international transactions of leading financial institutions and corporations would provide extra income, and would have no financial effect on the general public.
A Carbon and energy tax would generate $200bn from which climate finance could be easily funded. The fossil-fuel subsidies are around $700bn per year, worldwide. The producer subsidies consist mostly of funding from Northern governments to fossil-fuel producing companies. The redirection of this money to climate finance would have minimal affect on the citizens in developed countries.
Later in the evening there was a side event to discuss the report. Several representives from Friends of the Earth member groups were there to share their thoughts and take question.
The people included Ricardo Navarro from El Salvador; Siziwe Khanyile from South Africa; Samuel Nnah Ndobe from Cameroon; Karen Orenstein from the USA; and the report's author, Sarah-Jayne Clifton from England.
During the event delegates from developing countries were able to voice their concern regarding the efforts that are being made in pushing the World Bank's lead on handling climate finance for mitigation.
Members of the panel outlined that previous experience has shown that the World Bank is an unreliable institution, who continue to invest in fossil-fuels which are affecting the natural environment and local communities.
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Samuel Nnah Ndobe highlighted the problems associated with the UN REDD programme. In his summary, he states that through the REDD scheme forests will become cheap commodities. To date UN REDD is the biggest forest protection program, however Indigenous communities and developing countries are not necessarily benefiting from it.
Samuel added: "The debate shifted from climate change to financial mechanisms, which through carbon trading would create the possibility for the continuation of carbon-dioxide emissions and dependency on fossil-fuels."
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Nnimmo Bassey, Chair of Friends of the Earth International, is observing the UN climate talks in Cancun. Here he sets out the current state of play in the talks and outlines what we can expect. The prognosis is not good, but, there will be plenty of mobilisations and civil society scrutiny to remind the delegates that only a fair and just agreement will do.
It took a whole two hours of crawling on an express-way jammed by cars, buses and trucks heading to the Cancunmesse, a centre where delegates are screened before being ferried another 20-30 minutes to the Moon Palace - the venue of the talks.
For those who have visited this city, the location of the venue is rather isolated from the main city and may well have been selected for this reason. The routes are lined with armed police, including some on vehicles mounted with machine guns. The picture one comes off with is that of security overkill.
While welcoming delegates to the conference of the parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), president Felipe de Jesus Calderon Hinojosa of Mexico stated that the world must embark on the pursuit of "green development" and "green economy" as the path to sustainable development.
The president also stated that some of the steps to be taken to attain this ideal include progress on the negotiations on Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation in Developing Countries (REDD) as well as development of technologies to reduce fuel emissions. Another key point was that the financing of sustainable development should start with support for the poorest and the most vulnerable countries.
These were nice words. These were also very contentious ideas. There are several red flags and concerns about REDD by indigenous groups and forest dependent peoples as well as mass social movements across the world. The idea of canvassing the extension of financial assistance to the poorest and the most vulnerable countries is also seen by critics as a possible way dividing those same nations and making them pliable to suggestions and decisions that may actually be contrary to their best interests.
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Even before the Cancun conference opened there were concerns that efforts may already be afoot to rig the outcome, as was the case in Copenhagen in 2009. One concern is about a text for negotiation that is emanating from the chair of one of the working groups through an un-transparent process. Another concern has arisen from a decision of the Mexican president to invite selected heads of states to the conference. The list is not openly available, but already it is becoming clear that some uninvited presidents intend to be in Cancun.
The Copenhagen conference began and ended under a cloud of doubts and perceived undemocratic actions. At that meeting many delegations from developing and vulnerable nations believed that drafts of what would be the final outcome document were being discussed and circulated within privileged circles away from the standard practice where such negotiations took place on the open conference floor.
Many delegates in Cancun hope that the conference will take a transparent pathway. In Copenhagen there was a steady flow of leaked documents allegedly prepared by the president of the COP. Already in Cancun there are concerns over draft text prepared by the chair of the ad hoc working group on Long-term Cooperative Action (LCA) without due mandate of the working group. The other major working group under the COP is the one that deals with the Kyoto Protocol and another text is being expected from the chair of that working group also possibly without a mandate from the working group.
the copenhagen accord and the peoples agreement
The year between conferences is spent on technical negotiations and preparations during which delegations review texts prepared by chairpersons of the working groups on the basis of the submissions made by the delegations or members.
The document produced by the chair of the LCA appears to be something quite at variance with what many delegates expected would be the outcome of the negotiations and work done since Copenhagen. The document that delegates are to debate is allegedly based on the "Copenhagen Accord" which some delegates insist was not an agreement at the end of COP15, but was merely taken note of by that conference. Questions are being asked why such a document would now be legitimised and made the foundation for serious negotiations expected to produce a fair and ambitious agreement at the end of the conference in Cancun?
After the Copenhagen conference ended without an agreement, the government of Bolivia hosted a first ever World Peoples Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth in Cochabamba in April 2010. The outcome of that conference was the Peoples Agreement that the government of Bolivia then articulated into a formal submission to the UNFCCC as well as the Secretary General of the United Nations.
The essential fault line between those following the path crafted by the Copenhagen Accord and those who do not accept it as the way towards a fair agreement that recognises the principle of common and differentiated responsibilities are quite serious and the resolution has deep consequences for the future of our planet and the species that inhabit it, including humankind.
weak targets and small change
The draft text circulated by the chair of the LCA puts forward the ambition that may lead to an aggregate global temperature increase of up to 2°C as opposed to proposals made by a number of delegations that the target should be between a 1° and 1.5° temperature rise above pre-industrial levels. A 2°C temperature increase would mean catastrophic alteration to some parts of the world, with Africa being particularly vulnerable.
The text in question has also disregarded the demand by vulnerable nations that to ensure urgent and robust technology transfer for the purpose of mitigation and adaptation such transfers should not be governed by subsisting intellectual property rights regimes.
Another sore point in the text is that the financial commitment proposed does not step up to the level of ambition needed to tackle the climate crisis and is even less serious than what was suggested by the so-called Copenhagen Accord.
A coalition of civil society groups complained about the text from the chair of the LCA and also raised concerns about "the Kyoto Protocol negotiations, where the Chair of that track intends to propose his own text that will postpone adoption of legally binding emission reductions targets by the developed countries in Cancun, risks the expansion of accounting loopholes and replaces a legally-binding system with a voluntary pledge-based approach reflected in the Copenhagen Accord."
holding on to hope
The immediate past chair of the COP in her final statement indicated that the conference must move in a way that would show that Cancun can deliver a good outcome for tackling climate change.
Papua New Guinea suggested in a first statement at this conference that where there is no consensus, decision should be made by voting. He referred to the rejection of the Copenhagen Accord at COP15 and subsequent signing on by 140 countries. The delegates take was that only a small minority of states were holding others hostage. Papua New Guinea pledged cooperation and reasonableness in the COP. The suggestion by Papua New Guinea was promptly opposed by Bolivia, India and Saudi Arabia among other states. They insisted that that consensus must be maintained as a way to reach decisions.
Besides the crawl to the COP and the fact that getting to the different venues for the side events as well as the mobilisation and civil society spaces could mean a full day travelling, one hopes that the debates will be robust. That is one of the three things that will make being cocooned in Cancun bearable. The other is the exciting camaraderie of being among great Friends of the Earth International folks. And thirdly the first day of a two-week conference is not the appropriate day to lose all hope.


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Casebier said the next few games will do more to test the Indians' mettle.
"They [Steamboat] weren't very good, and our starters only played halfway through the third quarter," he said. "I don't like to beat people that bad, but everyone got to play."
The Indians are now 4-0, but next three games will tell the tale, he said, as the Indians face Pueblo West away on Friday, Ponderosa High at home the next week, and in two weeks they'll play Grand Junction away.
"The next three games are all against teams that are very good and ranked," he said. "We'll find out a lot in the next three games.
Casebier referred questions on stats of the game to the website www.maxpreps.com, which showed 347 total yards gained by the Indians, with Cameron Jones carrying the ball for 96 yards. Kordell Bradshaw ran 79 yards, Angelo Youngren ran 73, and Glen Fluke ran 57 yards.
Quarterback Drew Casebier completed four out of seven pass attempts for 57 yards with one touchdown and interceptions, according to the website, and averages 78.2 passing yards per game. Jones' average is 4.5 points per game with 6.3 yards per carry and Bradshaw averages 4.5 points per game. Youngren averages an impressive 23.3 points per game with 9.7 yards per carry.


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Frank McCourt has lost control of the Dodgers franchise as Bud Selig and the Major League Baseball association has seized ownership.
It's not clear to me that big-time sports is a business in any meaningful sense of the term. It seems based on economic principles drawn from the pre-capitalist era, when circuses roamed the landscape and people put their faith in shamans. But the way the Dodgers/McCourt psychodrama is playing out here in LA has led me to revise my view. Major League Baseball isn't even charming in some retro-feudal sense. It operates like a backwater banana republic, ruled by the iron hand of a Maximum Leader, Commissioner Bud Selig.
The sports media seem to have accepted this yucky paternalistic arrangement, which is worrisome. Here's Bill Plashcke in the LA Times:
Bud Selig owes us. The baseball commissioner who allowed a seriously underfunded McCourt to take the team from desperate Fox in 2004 owes us a strong and viable owner this time.
Selig will pick the person, believe me. No sports commissioner has a stronger influence over who is allowed entry in his league. Selig will pick this owner like he has picked other owners, but never before has his selection been more important, more mandated, and more tied to his legacy.
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DAHLONEGA, GA – The struggles continued for North Georgia on Tuesday night, as they fell to Montevallo 78-61 in Peach Belt Conference action.
The Saints (8-15, 3-9 PBC) got behind early and never caught their stride against the Falcons.
It's been a familiar story for North Georgia over the past few weeks, as they have now lost 10 of their last 11 games. The loss to the Falcons gives Montevallo the PBC West lead while keeping the Saints in a tie for last place against Georgia Southwestern.
North Georgia went down by 10 midway through the first half, then entered halftime down by 20 points at 42-22. The Saints would get as close as 11 points in the second half, before Montevallo would eventually put them away.
Clarence Tillman finished with 18 points as the senior was 5-for-8 from the three-point line. Tillman also finished with six rebounds.
The team's leading scorer Scott Windom finished with 11 points while battling foul trouble all evening.
Montevallo (17-6, 8-4 PBC) wins back-to-back conference games for the first time since January 7, when the defeated UNC Pembroke.
D.J. Rivera led the Falcons with 20 points and six rebounds. Rivera also had three steals.
The Falcons somehow managed to have as many offensive rebounds as they did defensive rebounds at 21, clearly a factor in their 17-point victory.
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Looking through the video camera viewfinder, there's a clear shot of the 1940s vintage yellow Piper Cub passing leisurely over the center of the runway. Despite the stiff crosswind, which continuously tries to push it off course, the Cub carefully maneuvers to stay out of the way of a fast-approaching Second World War era Corsair fighter, closing quickly from behind. On the short-cropped grass field, a sparkling aluminum TV-1 Korean War era fighter jet, trimmed in brilliant red paint, is taxiing back after returning to the field. Even from this distance you can clearly hear the turbine engine winding down and see the aircraft's landing lights still blazing so brightly they almost hurt your eyes. The camera captures some great moments of realism in aviation--that is, until a large hand reaches in from the corner of the frame, grabs the aircraft by the tail, and turns the recorded footage into something out of a sci-fi flick. The TV-1 is dragged backwards past some guy who is visible only from the knees down; sagging green socks just partially covering tell-tale winter whitened legs.
It's practice day at Top Gun.
No, not the U.S. Navy's fighter pilot training program in California, but rather a gathering of the very best radio control model aircraft builders and pilots at a more idyllic West Palm Beach, Florida, setting. Each year, this by-invitation-only event brings a select group of modelers from around the world to the Palm Beach Polo and Country Club field, which for four days is turned into a miniature airport hosting an eclectic mix of everything from First World War era fighters to modern-day military jets.
If your last encounter with model airplanes was some time ago, then you're in for a surprise. Far from fragile craft built from thin balsa sticks and covered with tissue paper, these state-of-the-art miniatures are absolute marvels of engineering and craftsmanship. Whether the competitor chooses to model a simple classic light plane such as Mariano Alfafara's colorful Clipped Wing Piper Cub, or an A-4 Skyhawk, complete with a functioning jet turbine engine like the one campaigned by Rei Gonzalez and Albert Araujo, the attention here is on realism.
Sixty-four competitors brought their best replicas--an air force that included P-51 Mustangs, P-38 Lightnings, F-4 Phantoms and even a trio of four-engine Boeing B-29s--to south Florida to find out who was truly "Top Gun." Just getting a miniature version of these complex aircraft into the air, while keeping all the mechanical systems operating perfectly and then bringing them back down again--in one piece--is highly challenging. But there's an even more daunting hurdle: before the models are flown, they must pass before the cold eyes of the static judges.
During this initial phase of competition, the modelers must document that their creation is identical in appearance to the real thing, only smaller. Not only must the model look exactly the same as the full-scale version in outline, color and markings, but the modeler must also conceal the radio control equipment within the structure and operate the control surfaces in a realistic manner without the "model" equipment being visible.
[deep cut and possible move][what does this mean?--tf] Frank Tiano, a veteran of Radio Control (R/C) modeling and the owner of a model plane company, Frank Tiano Enterprises, has been the driving force behind this world-class gathering since its inception in 1989. "There are many events for modeling throughout the country, every weekend of the year," he says. "Well, with all the events called scale events--which is what this is; it means that they are events for model airplanes that are models of real airplanes--there was never a well-organized big one where the competitor had some prestige. People still think [of] model airplanes [as having] little strings on them, they go round and round; they don't have a concept of what's going on here. So, I sat down and I said, with a couple friends of mine, 'This is what I want to do,' and I did it in 1989."
As the Top Gun event and its prestige have grown over the years, so has the sophistication, and cost, of the models competing. "Oh, about $10,000 with all of the radio equipment" was the response of one of the participants when asked by a spectator how much he had tied up in his modern jet fighter miniature. With a few exceptions, this is the high end of the price spectrum in the modeling world. Compared with most any other sport requiring a motor, however, it's practically a bargain. Of course, none of these dedicated competitors is going to make a living, even at this level, from hitting the contest circuit, regardless how much he invests. "We now give away a purse totaling 25 grand," says Tiano. "Now $25,000 is not a lot compared to motor sports. At the Indy 500 in one lap, I think, you can make 20 grand." Contrast that with what the Top Gun winner will take home: $1,500 as well as valuable equipment, such as engines or R/C systems, that are donated by manufacturers. Four-time Top Gun competitor Richard Uravitch sums it up when he says, "It's the camaraderie more than anything. We come here to socialize and share thoughts and interests, and all of that is interrupted by four rounds of flying."
While this is a just a hobby for most of the competitors, many still prepare as if it were a professional motor sports event. Under dozens of multicolored canopys--erected as much for the protection of the models as their owners--pilots and pit crews work, determined to sort out the problems that always seem to wait until it's time to fly before showing up.
This year modelers from as far away as Bolivia came to Florida to socialize and share their experience and love for the hobby--and yes, to fly. "People are invited to this event," Tiano points out. "You don't just show up." Considering there are tens of thousands of serious modelers around the world, it would seem quite a difficult task to determine who competes and who stays home, but Tiano says, "Its really simple. When you're in this, just like any other sport, you get to know who's good and who's not. Where we do need help is out of the country, because I don't compete in Europe, I don't compete in South America; we rely on those countries' version of the A.M.A. (Academy of Model Aeronautics--America's major sanctioning body for events) to send us the winners of their national events. We then contact those winners and say, 'Would you like to represent your country and come to this event?' As a result we have about 12 to 14 out-of-the-country folks here."
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Air Zermatt: adds the latest Bell 429 helicopter to its fleet
Air Zermatt has expanded its fleet with Europe's most modern helicopter. From mid-September, a helicopter Type Bell 429 will fly for the famous mountain rescue service. The Swiss helicopter company stands for reliability and speed. The Air Zermatt specialists rescue casualties from the mountains and out of glacier crevasses as well as performing transport assignments and touristic flights.
The Zermatt mountain rescue pioneers continually develop and perfect rescue techniques, which achieve maximum efficiency thanks to team work between the helicopter crews and rescuers. Gerold Biner, CEO of Air Zermatt: "With the new Bell 429 helicopter we will also be able to carry out difficult night rescues." The helicopter, registered as HB-ZSU, has specially built-in, highly-efficient SX5 searchlights, a Max Viz infrared camera, the certified NVG (Night Vision Goggles) night vision system, a 90-metre-long winch and modern medical technology. It is also approved for blind flights and will go into service from mid-September 2012.
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Material transport is an important business sector of Air Zermatt. Transport flights take up 60% of flying hours. Lama and Ecureuil helicopters carry up all shapes and sizes of building material as under-slung loads to mountain building sites, mountain rail & cableways, mountain huts and avalanche barrier sites. Air Zermatt also specializes in timber transport, assembly work, greening large areas, fire-fighting missions and special assignments with working platforms. The new Bell 429 is for example particularly suitable for maintenance work on high-voltage power lines because it has two motors and thus is especially safe. The second largest number of Air Zermatt flying hours is taken up by rescue and transfer flights for casualties. The third largest number of flying hours involves touristic flights. The offers include round-flights over the Alps, around the Matterhorn, taxi flights from Swiss and international airports to the holiday destination of Zermatt and heli-skiing from mountain landing sites. The entire annual kerosene consumption of Air Zermatt for flights to these landing sites is equivalent to one single full tank for the flight of a large passenger airliner from Zurich to New York.
Air Zermatt has international links thanks to its leading global position in mountain rescue. The company works with research stations in Germany and Austria as well as with the ISSM (International Society for Mountain Medicine) and other internationally active organizations. Gerold Biner, CEO of Air Zermatt, has been president of the IKAR/CISA – the world-wide platform for the exchange of mountain rescue know-how – since October 2010. Air Zermatt's links also ensure that know-how is regularly communicated. And so since 2010, Air Zermatt has been working in Nepal to build a rescue station where helicopter pilots and mountain rescuers can be trained for highly complex rescue missions at altitudes up to 7000 metres. During its 40-year history, Air Zermatt has already received three heroism awards (1972, 1976, 2010) as well as many other international honours.
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Just when you thought it was safe to go back to Washington, the snarling snark of the Potomac may be making a surprise return.
The last time we saw U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, he was saying goodbye to his long and stormy congressional career, passing the baton to young Joseph P. Kennedy III.
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Jon Gosselin: I Despise Kateby Free Britney at .
There wasn't exactly any love lost between Jon and Kate Gosselin to begin with (to put it mildly), but the estranged spouses' war of words was kicked into another gear after Jon's latest outburst on Good Morning America this morning.
He's said she treated him like a lame fish, and was beaten down and abused by his grating spouse - but he never referred to her as "someone I despise."
Until today.
It's a far cry from a few weeks ago, when he said he still loved Kate Gosselin as his children's mother. Now he can't even tolerate the thought of her.
GMA interviewer Chris Cuomo even questioned Gosselin's choice of words and said he should "be careful," but Jon reiterated that he does despise Kate.
The reason? Filling their 10 years of marriage with anger and abuse, and not even projecting a truthful representation of the couple to the media.
IR8: Jon Gosselin despises Kate ... even harder than you think.
Becoming increasingly agitated as he was shown contrasting celebrity gossip magazines featuring Kate and himself, Jon basically called Kate out for what he considers a huge act, for degrading their marriage, shoplifting his manhood and more.
Kate Gosselin didn't just steal Jon's pride and 10 years of his life – she also swiped his wedding ring, he claims, while still wearing hers "for show."
He put down the ring one day, saying "I'm done," only to have it disappear a few days later, with Kate the only person who could have taken it.
Jon says he's cried "more in the last eight months" than in his entire life, due to pent up frustration with Kate and having "no voice in the media."
At least he's remedying the second part of that.
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I have been watching the show from the begining and Kate has taken a turn for the better. She is not as stressed out and Jon took a turn for the worst, he has gained weight. Jon neeeds to remember that it was Kate that made him a reality star. All these little flings he is having is making him look bad. All these younger women are just trying for a competition to see who can sleep with Jon. Kate is showing a lot of respect for herself because she is not sleeping around. Jon is trying to sleep with every woman he can.
Lets face it .. Jon complains about Kate being cranky etc .. but wouldnt anyone be after spending most of the day with either 6 children of 8 when the others come home from school.. Im cranky at times with two !!! ... he get time off by going to work etc playing his sport etc etc Kate of course deserved as much support from him as was possible .. when does she get to sleep in or have time to herself ??? He has become and probably always was a self centred person.. poor him missing out on his life .. what a load of rubbish .. by the way isnt he working any more or just making headlines and rubbing shoulders with the celebrities .. and this is a man who complained about television people in his home ??.. Of course she was tough .. anyone who manages 10 people has to be orderly and forward thinking ... he should of been proud of her as a wife and a mother .. and stop thinking with his dick and ego ...
Of course Jon's "soul mate" would be someone who still lives with her parents and still thinks acting up in a bar is big bad edgy stuff. Of course she said, she "would never tell him what to do." If he makes her non-eight-kids pompous little self mad, she'll just tell mom!
I'm so tired of this immature man and his barely-got-hair-down-there skank. Please, send him back to his native cheesy China, and send the bimbette du jour back to juvie!
I for one am glad Jon finally "set the record straight", or at least in HIS mind he did. Come on people we all saw how Kate treated him. Right or wrong they were both in that marriage together and it takes 2 to make things work or not work. They were both wrong, Kate the way she talk and Jon for not manning up sooner. The sad fact is that these kids have to live with this. Enough is enough who cares I wish the show would be cancel, let Jon go his way and Kate hers and let these people see how life really is. I don't know about the rest of you but I have enough in my own life to keep me busy, and don't need to watch any of these shows..let's get a life people, and try to make a difference, with REALITY not TV REALITY !!!!!
Everyone keeps attacking John, but if you really watched the show closely, Kate was very rude to him she let fortune got knows she has no fame!!! destroy their lives. When you disrespect your partner for so long eventualy they will go away.I think she is very greedy,and she will destroy anyone who gets between her and her money.I pity the people that deal with her on a daily basis. She's a biiiitch!!!!!
John is such a loser...we have seen his side of the story...the old saying actions speak louder than words is true and his actions speak volumes...i have two children and i get frustrated with them, I can't imagine having 8 at one time. She may not be perfect but at least her heart is in the right place, at least her kids come first not some misplaced jealousy. Kate is better off without him


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With the scored tied at 6 at halftime, Thursday night's Week 5 football contest between the Bulldogs and Golden Bears was postponed until Saturday at noon due to unrelenting lightning flashes caused by an evening storm.
"You've got statewide grad exams and basically we didn't want to keep the kids out too late," Anniston coach Eddie Bullock said.
Lightning flashed as Bullock answered a reporter's questions outside Anniston's field house. "We actually wanted to finish it," Bullock added. "But they claimed a front is still coming through. We could've been here until one in the morning with the kids still having to take grad exams. We were basically just looking out for them."
Alabama High School Athletic Association rules calls for a 30-minute delay before play can begin following each lightning strike. The clock was reset some 10 times during the nearly hour-and-a-half gap between halftime and the postponement.
Following a conference between both schools administrators and coaches, the sides agreed to finish the non-region contest following Friday night's games to ensure game officials would be available, Bullock said.
Anniston (2-2) scored first on a 3-yard touchdown from running back Troymaine Pope on a fourth-and-goal with 6:40 to play in the first but missed on the point after attempt. Lincoln (2-2) quarterback Sharrod Cochran, who had missed the Golden Bears three previous games due to injury, hooked up with wide receiver Logan Sims for a 20-yard touchdown pass on a fourth-and-7 with 11:09 to play in the second. But the Golden Bears failed on their extra point attempt as well to leave the game knotted at 6.
Brandon Gaston led Anniston with five carries for 45 yards and Lincoln's Rod Green had 25 yards on five carries. Anniston junior Jaron James added an interception.
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Restored artwork will appear in the Gemäldegalerie museum in Berlin and has been published in a German journal
More than 500 years ago, in a workshop in Venice, artist Antonio Vivarini and his assistants painted images of saints on a series of panels that would become part of a large altarpiece. Twelve of the panels eventually passed into the hands of private collectors, before being acquired by the Gemäldegalerie museum in Berlin in 1829, at which time they were separated. During the Second World War, the panels were stored in separate locations–some at a museum in East Berlin and others in West Berlin–and are in various states of disrepair.
Now the panels can be seen together again, and in restored condition, depicted as they may have once appeared in position on the altarpiece. Lew Minter, director of the art department's media lab, has produced digital reconstructions of two of the altar's polyptychs (panel paintings) for Italian art historian Catarina Arcangeli, an external collaborator with Berlin's Gemäldegalerie. Amanda Smith '10 (Henderson, Nev.), a double major in art and economics & business, worked with Minter extensively on the project as an EXCEL Scholar.
"The opportunity to do these kinds of projects further enhances Lafayette's position as a leader in the scholarly and academic communities of art and art history," Minter says.
Arcangeli was working on a catalog of 15th century Venetian paintings for the museum when she became interested in these panels, which had long been ignored by scholars. She noted stylistic differences among the images of the saints, which led her to think that some may have been produced by a Vivarini collaborator somewhere in Eastern Europe. Therefore, it seemed likely that the panels belonged to two different polyptychs of the same altar.
Arcangeli turned to Minter for help in digitally restoring and reassembling the panels. She provided photographs and x-rays of the panels, which Minter and Smith digitally manipulated to remove damage and to restore colors to as close to the original as possible. The panels were fitted into a digital image of the frame, modeled after a frame from a Vivarini polyptych at the Vatican Museums.
"We can change the colors, we can brighten them, we can take scratches away, we can add and delete things," Smith explains. "You have to do a lot of research on the artist, find out what his style was, what colors he used, and then you use that information to try to bring each piece back to life and make it whole. It's not going to be perfect, obviously, but it's our interpretation based on what we know and what we can do."
The digital reconstructions will be exhibited at the Gemäldegalerie and were published among a broader discussion of the context of the polyptychs in the Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen 2008 (Year Book of the Berlin Museums, published 2009). A detailed article focusing on reconstruction problems will be published, along with color reproductions, in a museum journal sometime soon, according to Arcangeli.
The pieces that Smith had seen only through computer images came to life when she traveled to Italy this past summer with Diane Cole Ahl, Rothkopf Professor of Art History, and Rado Pribic, Williams Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures. A group of 26 students, including Smith, spent three weeks touring Rome and studying the artistic and literary culture of Italy. While in Italy, Smith was able to meet Arcangeli and see some of the pieces that she had worked on in person.
"This whole experience has broadened my range of capabilities as an artist and has expanded my creativity. I feel very fortunate to have been given the chance to assist such amazing artists and work on projects that are making a tremendous impact on the art world. EXCEL is a great way for students to get a look at the projects that will be presented to them in the real world," Smith says.
"The purpose of my collaborations with art historians and curators is to expand the knowledge, not just of students who may work on the projects with me, but the scholarly community and the public in general, regarding masterworks that have been lost to the world through the visualization of scholarly research," Minter says.


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